Blogger Posts Not Indexed by Google and How to Fix It

You published a post on Blogger a week ago, searched for its exact title in Google, and nothing came up. Blogger posts not indexed is one of the most common complaints from new bloggers, and it is frustrating because Blogger is a Google product, so it feels like it should just work.

It usually does work, eventually. But "eventually" can mean days or months, and some posts never make it in at all. The difference is almost always something you can check and fix from your Blogger dashboard and Google Search Console in under an hour.

First, confirm your Blogger posts are not indexed

Searching Google for your post title is not a reliable test. Your post might be indexed but ranking on page five. Use these two checks instead:

The site search. Type site: directly followed by your blog address, then a distinctive phrase from the post, into Google. If it shows up, the post is indexed. If your blog uses a custom domain, use that domain rather than the blogspot address.
URL Inspection in Search Console. Paste the full post URL into the bar at the top of Search Console. It will say either "URL is on Google" or "URL is not on Google," along with a reason.

If you have not added your blog to Search Console yet, do that first. It takes about five minutes, and Blogger blogs on a blogspot address can be verified through the same Google account. Without it, you are guessing.

Read what Search Console is telling you

Open the Pages report under Indexing. It groups every URL Google knows about by status. Here are the ones that matter most for Blogger, and what each usually means:

Status	What it usually means on Blogger	Action
Discovered, currently not indexed	Google knows the URL but has not crawled it yet	Wait, add internal links, request indexing
Crawled, currently not indexed	Google read the page and decided not to include it for now	Improve the content, then request indexing
Alternate page with proper canonical tag	Usually the mobile ?m=1 version of a post	Nothing, this is normal
Excluded by noindex tag	Your robots settings are blocking the page	Check custom robots header tags
Page with redirect	Old URL that now points elsewhere	Nothing, if the redirect is intentional

Many new bloggers panic when they see hundreds of URLs excluded. On Blogger, most of those are archive pages, label pages and mobile versions. They are supposed to be excluded. Focus only on your actual post URLs.

Fix the Blogger settings that block indexing

Blogger has a few settings that can quietly stop Google from indexing your posts. Go to Settings and scroll to Crawlers and indexing.

Visible to search engines must be turned on, under Privacy. If it is off, Blogger tells Google not to index anything.
Enable custom robots header tags. If this is on, check the settings for posts and pages. They should be set to "all." If someone ticked "noindex" for posts while trying to hide archive pages, every post on the blog is excluded.
Enable custom robots.txt. If this is on, read the file carefully. A single line such as "Disallow: /" blocks the entire blog. If you are not sure what you are doing, turning custom robots.txt off restores Blogger's safe default.

These options and a few others are covered in our checklist of basic SEO settings most new bloggers skip. It is worth going through once if your blog is new.

Check your sitemap

Blogger generates a sitemap automatically at /sitemap.xml for posts and /sitemap-pages.xml for static pages. In Search Console, open Sitemaps and submit both. After a day or two, the status should say "Success" with a count close to your number of published posts. If the count is far lower, something is blocking part of the blog.

Why requesting indexing over and over does not help

The most common advice for Blogger posts not indexed is to click "Request indexing" in Search Console, and to keep clicking it every day until Google listens. I think this is mostly wasted effort.

Requesting indexing puts your URL in a priority crawl queue. It does not force Google to include the page. If Google has already crawled the post and chose not to index it, requesting again simply gets you the same decision faster. There is also a daily limit on requests, roughly 10 to 12 per property, so you cannot use it to push a whole blog through.

Use the request once after you publish or after you have made a real improvement. Then spend your time on the things that actually change Google's decision:

Add internal links from posts that are already indexed. A new post with no links pointing to it looks unimportant. Link to it from two or three related, older posts with descriptive anchor text.
Make the post more useful than what already ranks. A 300 word post repeating what ten other sites say gives Google little reason to add it. Add specifics: steps, screenshots, numbers, your own testing.
Remove thin or duplicate posts. If your blog has many near empty posts, Google may crawl the whole site less often. Merge them, then point old URLs to the merged version with Blogger custom redirects.

How long indexing normally takes on Blogger

For a brand new blog with a handful of posts, it is common to wait one to four weeks before the first posts appear. Once a blog has been publishing steadily for a few months and has some links pointing to it, new posts are often indexed within one to three days.

If an individual post has been sitting at "Discovered, currently not indexed" for more than a month, it is usually a sign that Google does not see it as a priority. Strengthen it and link to it. If it says "Crawled, currently not indexed" for weeks, Google has looked and decided the content is not adding enough. That needs a rewrite, not another request.

For more practical guides on helping a blog get found, browse our SEO for bloggers section.

Frequently asked questions

Why are my Blogger posts not showing up on Google?

Most often the post is new and Google has not crawled it yet, or a robots setting in Blogger is blocking it. Check the post with URL Inspection in Search Console to see the exact reason. Then fix any noindex settings and add internal links from older posts.

How do I get Google to index my Blogger post faster?

Submit your sitemap in Search Console, request indexing once for the new URL, and link to the post from pages that are already indexed. Sharing it where real readers will click can also help Google find it sooner. Repeating the indexing request daily does not speed things up.

Are the m=1 URLs on Blogger a problem for SEO?

No. Blogger adds ?m=1 to mobile versions of pages, and each one includes a canonical tag pointing to the main URL. Search Console lists them as alternate pages with a proper canonical tag, which is the expected and healthy result.